Lack Of eVTOL Performance Data Makes Designing Vertiports Difficult

Vertiport
A VoloCity air taxi approaches a VoloPort-branded vertiport.
Credit: Volocopter
With limited electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft flight-test data available, the Federal Aviation Administration is limited in its ability to provide guidance as to how vertiports should be safely built. That forced the FAA to provide conservative regulatory guidance to potential...

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